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Brian4Liberty
07-23-2018, 10:05 AM
$12 million per mile for a bike lane? That should trigger a civic heart attack (https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/12-million-per-mile-for-a-bike-lane-that-should-trigger-a-civic-heart-attack/)
Danny Westneat


The revelation that the biggest tax levy in Seattle history is already short of funds after less than three years ought to prompt a reckoning at City Hall about how they do business. It probably won’t.

The news that voter-approved bike lanes in downtown Seattle are costing more than 10 times the estimates is said to have nearly sent our new mayor to the ER.

“I thought the mayor was going to have a heart attack when I showed her,” said the interim director of the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT). Bike lanes that voters were told would cost about $860,000 per mile were actually clocking in at an eye-watering $12 million per mile.

This was part of the news that the $930 million Move Seattle package — passed in 2015 and by far the largest tax levy ever in this city — is nevertheless already short of funds to accomplish anywhere near what the voters were promised.
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More: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/12-million-per-mile-for-a-bike-lane-that-should-trigger-a-civic-heart-attack/

Brian4Liberty
07-23-2018, 10:08 AM
Less parking, less lanes on the clogged roads, but at least they got “muh bike lanes”. It has also been reported that bicycle accidents have increased, not sure if they took into account whether there was an increase in usage that contributed to that.

shakey1
07-23-2018, 10:25 AM
Government project = $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

eleganz
07-23-2018, 10:29 AM
Seattle's gone off the deep end. They are drunk off Microsoft/Amazon's tech tax dollars.

oyarde
07-23-2018, 06:12 PM
Seattle . Enough said . Move along to real America.

Anti Globalist
07-23-2018, 06:34 PM
Well its a good thing I don't ride a bike.

phill4paul
07-23-2018, 06:38 PM
I'm sure property tax on bicycles, licensing and tag renewals will pay for it. No worries.

Firestarter
07-24-2018, 09:19 AM
$12 million per mile for a bike lane? That should trigger a civic heart attack (https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/12-million-per-mile-for-a-bike-lane-that-should-trigger-a-civic-heart-attack/)
You’re obviously overreacting…

Over here in the wonderful “democratic” Kingdom of the Netherlands in the city of Amsterdam the taxpayers will pay for the 9.7 kilometre metro (of which only 7.1 kilometre underground): 3.1 billion Euro.
That’s 319.6 million Euros per kilometer: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?507185-Greetings-from-Holland&p=6657242&viewfull=1#post6657242

Instead of protesting my fellow countrymen celebrated the grant opening...

TheTexan
07-24-2018, 11:39 AM
This is why I love government. The "whatever it takes" attitude.

"We need a road goddamnit, and we'll spend $10m per mile if we have to!"

Seattle residents should be proud.